Chapter Tactics #83: 8th Edition 101, Mastering the Movement Phase

Chapter Tactics is a 40k podcast which focuses on promoting better tactical play and situational awareness across all variations of the game. This is the second episode in a series of episodes which are going to break down each phase of the game, and dive into how you can master them. Today Pablo uses some teammates to help talk about succeeding in the movement phase.

About Petey Pab

Aspiring 40k analyst, tournament reporter and Ultramarines enthusiast, Petey Pab only seeks to gather more knowledge about the game of 40k and share it with as many people as he can in order to unite both hobbyists and gamers. We are, after all, two sides of the same coin.

Pablo,
you need to work on your audio recording set up. I can hear your guests speaking a second time, it’s as if you are using speakers, but I imagine that’s not the case. It’s very faint, but just enough to be noticeable

Your audio recording system puts in “skips” where it verbatim repeats audio that was just said. Its not the person recording it saying the things twice- its the system. You need to go back, find these, and edit them out.

You touched on this a bit, but my biggest struggle in the movement phase is having my modela block each others’ movement. I’ve been playing 120-150 Orks. They need to bunch up in order to take advantage of the Kustom Force Field and Painboy. But that bunching up makes for problems in movement. It’s a balance that I’m still trying to sort out.

Enjoyed this episode immensely. Thought all the panelists contributions were insightful, and I particularly enjoyed Brandon’s succinct and articulate breakdowns. Great stuff, Pablo, looking forward to more of these 101 episodes.

So, in the end, there are 3 basic movement phases:
The movement movement phase,
The charge movement phase,
The pile in – combat – consolidate phase.
And then, some special movement phases via psychic powers and stratagems.

Good podcast. I’ve been listening you for a while, and in each episode there’s interesting content.